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When you recursively scan a massive directory tree, would you use Sys.readdir or Unix.readdir? My inclination is that Sys.readdir feels more convenient to use, and thus the lower-level Unix.readdir would have the performance edge. Is it significant enough to bother with?
In addition to the post from last week covering BON in a Box and OCaml Functors, below are some additional notes.
Rather varied week this week. A number of our EEG interns have started their work with us for the summer, with two nice projects falling under my direct supervision, with Lucas and Jeremy. It’s great to get to watch people start their first forays into the world of hacking on OCaml, once the customary “I was a baby when you started maintaining OCaml” comments et al are out of the way 😂 It’s also great to get to see the excitement, and reassuring to know that it is still an exciting thing to get to do for new people too!
Discover our Internship project focusing on building new visualisations for OCaml's memory profiler "statmemprof".
In my OCaml project, I’d like to abstract away the details of running containers into specific modules based on the OS. Currently, I have working container setups for Windows and Linux, and I’ve haphazardly peppered if Sys.win32 then where I need differentiation, but this is OCaml, so let us use functors!
